Introduction: Clinical education is part of medical education where students gradually acquire skills by attending patients’ bedside. In fact, students use the acquired skills and logical experiences to resolve patients’ problems. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was performed using the non-guided content analysis method. The study population included 240 assistants from 13 educati...

Pharmacy services were introduced in an established multidisciplinary geriatric ambulatory clinic. The pharmacist collaborated with primary care providers to optimize patients' drug regimens. Over 8 months there were 250 patient visits to the clinic. Traditional medical care was provided at 144 (57.6%) of these visits and traditional medical care plus pharmacist evaluation was provided at 106 (...

Background Increased involvement of pharmacists in patient care may increase access to health care and improve patient outcomes. Purpose To determine the effectiveness and harms of pharmacist-led chronic disease management for community-dwelling adults. Data Sources MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts from 1995 through February 2016, and reference l...

PURPOSE Pharmacist prescribing as part of a collaborative drug therapy agreement (CDTA) within an integrated health system in Washington is described. SUMMARY Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) in Seattle, Washington, uses a team-based care model with broad-based CDTAs to provide quality patient care. The majority of patients are referred to the pharmacist after a diagnosis has been made an...

PURPOSE Safety precautions for the use of U-500 insulin in a hospital setting are described. SUMMARY St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, a 500-bed community hospital, formed a committee to develop a U-500 insulin policy to address the unique considerations required for this drug at all steps of the medication management process. An order set was designed by the multidisciplinary team to standa...

Because of the complexities of warfarin administration and its bleeding complications, a pharmacist-managed protocol for warfarin administration was developed at Baylor University Medical Center. The protocol incorporated current clinical guidelines and evidence-based medicine. Clinical outcomes under the protocol were compared with those of usual care, physician management, in a pilot study. T...

OBJECTIVE The pharmacist must work with the clinical team across the continuum of care to develop and therefore improve the patient's quality of life. In this study, we present the results from a continuous pharmaceutical care programme for patients admitted to an angiology and vascular surgery department. MATERIAL AND METHODS A 5-month prospective study to evaluate the results of a pharmaceu...

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Chief Operations Officer, Michigan Pharmacists Association, Lansing Michigan; Pharmacy Specialist, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan; ¶Cl...

The Belgian Association of Hospital Pharmacists (BAHP) is a professional and scientific association representing all pharmacists who work in hospital institutions, whether private or public, university, general or psychiatric. This association was created in 1953. The aim of this short paper is to tell the history of its continuous development in a few words. The main development is reviewed fr...